Another Devastating School Shooting: Uvalde, Texas

It's called a swarm tactic. All you need to do is focus on just one. The others can wait.

Yeah, it's what they've always done here.

I note that engineer has wimped out.

I wonder how long I should wait before I declare victory and thrash the next one.

Here's a scenario focused on ending the problem of gun violence in the USA:

The country goes through a number of election cycles and a strong liberal House and Senate are in office with a liberal Democrat as president. The 6-3 conservative/liberal division on the Supreme Court is replaced with a 6-3 liberal/conservative mix under Chief Justice Sotomayor. Several states pass restrictive gun laws with the idea that they will be taken to court. The suit makes its way through the system and ends up in the Supreme Court.
The justices reinterpret the 2nd Amendment, reestablishing the former prevailing understanding that the Constitution does not grant an individual right to bear arms,

as the amendment clearly mentions a "militia".

Military style weapons are outlawed for civilian ownership and use.

No military look-alikes will be allowed, and the selection of available firearms will be reduced to a few different hunting and target rifles, some shotguns, and revolvers chambered for 38 Special.
Anyone who really wanted to acquire proficiency on a military-styled weapon would simply sign up for active duty in the armed forces or National Guard (militia). Illegal weapons would be confiscated if carried beyond the front door of one's home. The ammunition commonly associated with military-styled weapons would be unavailable to civilians.
You get the picture.

DNA test had to be done on these precious children because they were blown apart by an assault riffle.

We're a pretty screwed up country for allowing such weapons on the street.

This goes beyond any rights even if you support the right to bare arms -- there is no reason anyone needs an assault weapon.

My husband is a marine and he says there is no reason for this. What the heck is this sort of weapon for but killing and doing the most possible damage in as short amount of time as is possible. It is not for hunting? Or even if you wanted personal protection.

Yeah. I own more than one handgun, but no way could I justify assault weapons.

I'm so thankful that oralloy isn't here.

I checked those forums O linked to in his profile, to see if he is saying anything constructive at all about the recent shooting(s).
Not at all. It is mostly "protect civil liberties (AKA gun rights only)", "progressives are evil", "everything I say is the truth", "NRA has final say on gun control", and absolutely zero empathy towards the victims.

When assault weapons are used in a mass shooting, 6x as many people are shot.

But you left out the context, the part about the militia.

"Bearing arms" is a military reference.

The idea was that we'd have no standing army, and that trained militia members would have their weapons at home ready to respond when necessary. Given the clausal construction of the amendment, courts can interpret those words in more than one way — and already have.

Excluding the military and a few law enforcement agencies there aren't really that many government officials who carry weapons.

read the rest of the amendment, which all you gun loonies conveniently ignore.

the 2nda is clearly about well-regulated militias.

tnhey were not, repeat not, just any loony who could get a musket., let alone an ar15.

for two centuries, that's the way the 2a was read, until right wing wackos and the nra packed scotus and reinterpreted it to suit the mass murder prone among us.

it never meant or was meant to mean what all the gun loonies insist fallalkciously it was.

"Puny"? What's "puny" about a 30-06, a 12 gauge shotgun, or a .357 revolver?

Why would a civilian need battlefield weapons?

The RELEVANT stat is the 20,000 or so people every year who use largely legally acquired guns to commit killings that are in no way related to self or family protection or home defense,

self or family protection or home defense, ie. used in now ay justified by the NRA-inspired scotus judicial activist reinterpretation of the second amendment,,

Guns were inescapably invented to kill. That is their purpose,

But when I look at deaths by non-military gun violence in this country the federal government lags way behind in the body count. The government hasn't killed kids in classrooms or sprayed hi-vel ammo into nightclubs. It hasn't conducted drive-by shootings. It hasn't marketed assault-style weapons to teens and mentally disturbed people.

Good. Add assault weapons to your list.